Quotes about Force
The protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, require that force should be interposed to a certain degree.
— Thomas Jefferson
We hope that diplomacy works before you ever use force. The hardest decision a president makes is ever to use force.
— George W. Bush
The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The week ahead is already programmed for fabulousness. Pray that your thinking be aligned with the force that makes it so.
— Marianne Williamson
Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.
— Walt Whitman
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
the same quality of making other standards non-existent by ignoring them. This attribute was common to most of Lily's set: they had a force of negation which eliminated everything beyond their own range of perception.
— Edith Wharton
they had a force of negation which eliminated everything beyond their own range of perception.
— Edith Wharton
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
— Edmund Burke
The violent take it by force" is how the King James Version puts it (Matt. 11:12). That is the way the kingdom of God advances. With persecution outside, Satan fighting us through temptations, and our own lusts within, every disciple of Christ is in a battle, one that demands spiritual strength and ongoing vigilance.
— Edward Welch
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
— Albert Camus
Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror or force, whether it arises under a facets government or communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.
— Albert Einstein